Progress+Report

3/13/09

1. I have made a significant amount of progress with my project. At first I had only a brainstrom of what I wanted to work towards. Then I took a small step by disscussing with my mom (mentor) who I could possibly talk to. I decided to take the next small step and talk to Mrs. Lawler who works with the special education students. From there we came up with the idea that I could teach a lesson with the students. I have not yet put the lesson together. I also just reacently got a job offer to babysit a child who is autistic.

2. As for my next three goals I have to...


 * Come up with a creative lesson
 * Thing of questions to be aware of while teaching
 * Think of how I can work with another class and how I can compare the two.
 * Meet with the family who has an autistic child.
 * Keep Mr. Weidner in the loop

3. Input from my mentor and teachers have been a huge help. It gave me some ideas that I may not have thought of myself. It was very helpful to hear different ideas and opinions, so that I could figure out what would work the best for me. Also since the many teachers in the school are aware of my project, they have opened up the opprotunity for me to work with a child with autisim. That will help me not only with my project but with what I want to do in my career.

4/7/09.

1. I have made a good amount of progress with my project as far as mapping out what I want to do, the next step now is acually doing it. I have met with Mr. Weidner and he gave me alot of helpful information about schizophrenia. He also has a copy of my rough draft to read over and I asked for his input. I have talked with Mrs. Lawler and other special eduation students and we came up with the idea of makeing a recipe together with the students. I will get a chance to work hands on with them and observe their way of learning. And finally I babysat an autisitc child yesterday for the first time.

2. My goals from now on...
 * Find a recipe and buy supplys
 * Make an instructions bored
 * follow up with speical olympics
 * begin a jounal of my observations

3. My topic expert has been a huge help because I am able to communicate with him effectivly. He has been very intrested in what my project is on and he has shown a huge amount of effort. Also my mentor has talked to me about what i am going to do with my project.

4/17/09 I was set back slightly in my project idea because I was not able to attend the special olympics. I want to think of an alternative idea that I can do with Marggys class. On the other hand I plan on making a posterboard this weekend with directions of my recipe that I am going to pick out after talking with Mrs. Lawler today. I plan on doing this with her class next Friday, if my time allows me. I am also continuing my babysitting job on April 28th where i will be seeing Chris again. I have bought a book that I am keeping notes and observations in.